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Playreaders To Perform Works of Shaw and ilde Reading Clu
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By ALLAN STILLWAGON
The Ann Arbor Playreading
Group is emphatically 'just for
fun.-
Productions by the non-profit,
non-professional organization are
fi-ee from long rehearsals, box-
office worries or technical trivia.
Tomorrow's program, for exam-
ple, is the second in the group's
history to be "staged." Previously,
Clifford Odets' "Waiting for
Lefty" was the only program that
had not been read with a mini-
mum of concern for stage busi-
ness and props.
Trio Planned
A trio of short works will be of-
fered at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the
Dramatic Arts Center, the guar-
dian angel of the playreading
group. Act One of Shaw's "Cae-
sar and Cleopatra," Scene One of
his "St. Joan," and all of Oscar
Wilde's "Salome" will be read.
Philip Diskin, this month's vol-.
unteer for staging and direction,
calls attention to the group's
"c o m p l e t e flexibility." Each
month one member volunteers to
direct a forthcoming reading, and
then has the option of choosing
the play and its cast.
Some directors call two or three
rehearsals, concentrate on vocal
expression alone, and strive to
duplicate the austere style of the
First Dramatic Quartet's "Don
Juan in Hell."
Diskin has planned things dif-;
ferently, and boasts not only3
character movement, and cos-
tumes, but original music and
,choreography for "Salome" as
well.
Cleopatra and Joan are played
by students, Diana Marcus, '58
A&D, and Nancy Winston, '59,
while 'Salome' is portrayed by a,
housewife, Mary Lee Merriman.
MIT Group
The group appeared shortly aft-
er the arrival of Bill Caldwell of
the mathematics department from!
the Massachusetts Institute ofj
,Technology. There, a similarlyI
casual organization had claimed
his interest.
Prof. Wilfred Kaplan of the
mathematics department, a mem-
ber of the DAC Board of Direc-
tors, encouraged Caldwell to or-
ganize here and shortly thereafter,
the club was taken under the pro-
tective wing of the DAC. It has
steadily increased its membership
since that time.
Now approximately 100 stu-
dents, faculty, and townspeople
join to present a playbill at least
once a month. Their stated pur-
pose is "to have fun, and to en-
joy plays both socially and dra-
matically."
The members maintain a stand-
ing invitation to anyone who
would like to join them, to read,
to direct, or just to listen.
The Contemporary Literature
Club will hold a second organiza-
tional meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon-
day in Room 3A of the Union, ac-
cording to Sidney Warschausky
of the English Department.
Informal discussion of poetry
and prose is the aim of the group,
which is being formed at the re-
quest of students.
Dylan Thomas, Steinbeck and
James Joyce are among the auth-
ors being considered for discus-
sion.fodics
Membership ,is not limited to
English majors, and all students
are invited to join the group.
A permanent meeting time will
be selected during tomorrow's
meeting.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957
General Notices
University Figure Skating Club will
meet on Wed., Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in-
stead of its usual Tues. meeting. See-
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-Daily-Norm Jacobs
ROME MEETS EQYPT-Richard Allen as Caesar sternly watches
Ftatateeta (Laurrie Webber) crown the young Cleopatra (Diana
Marcus.)
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Of American Revolution
-Daily-Norm Jacobs
SALOME' STARES-Mary Lee Merriman peers past the pale form
of Allen Shields during the Playreader's production of Salome'.
Scientists-Begin Extensive
Search for Earth's Secrets
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Readers of American history ac-
A counts -written by A m er ica n
authors for American people-and
students studying their history
books often wonder about the
"other side" of the picture.
Realizing such books are often
biased when relating historical
events, these readers turn to other
sources in order to obtain the true
picture.
Clements Library, which' deals
exclusively with early American
histoi-y, has no such biased ac-
counts in their' American revolu-
tion collection. In fact, a major
share of their collection of books
and manuscripts from this period.
deals extensively with the English
side of the battle.
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olicitor general, dealt with ban-
shed Loyalists.
Here also are, the papers of
General Thomas, Gage, British
commander in America from 1763
hrough the year of the Boston
MIassacre and Tea Party and the
irst year of the Revolution.
The Gage volumes include more'
han 21,000 letters composed of
orrespondence with British of-
icials, his officers, colonial gov-
rnors and Indian agents.
One local interest manuscriptis
aletter to Gage giving a Detroit
ensus on both sides of the river,
omplete with list of people, ani-
mals and bushels of grain and po-
atoes.
Clinton Collection
The most complete collection is
hat of Sir Henry Clinton, British
iommander from 1778 to 1782.
A highly publicized document is
raitor Benedict Arnold's overture
o the British in 1780, in which he
ffered to sell West Point for 20,-
00 pounds sterling. Clements Li-
'rary has the original letter, writ-
en in a code keyed to a small dic-
ionary.
There are some papers from the
American side, also. Those of Gen-
ral Nathanael Greene, southern
ommander of the revolution who
eveloped into Washington's ablest
ssistant; and General Josiah Tar-
.ar, first commander of the Am-
rican Army when it was active
n the old Northwest, are some of
the larger collections.
SCHISTOSOMIASIS:
Snails Threaten Darn
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William L. Clements
The libarary is based on the t
books of* William L. Clements, a t
Michigan alumnus and regent. o
This Bay City industrialist gave 0
his.-books and the building to the b
University in 1923. t
He continued collecting manu- ti
scripts of the revolution, but in
his search found most of, the orig- A
inal letters and documents by e
American officials already dispos- c
ed of in the Library of Congress d
and eastern historical societies. a
Clements, therefore, 10 o k e d m
abroad for British correspondence, e
finding the papers still in 'the in
hands of family descendents of t
British generals and ministers.
His efforts to procure them wele
quite successful. The result is
Clements Library, possessing the
largest collections of, this kind in
the country.
British Papers
The library has the papers. of
important British men who were
largely responsible for the out-
come of the war.
Among them are Lord George
Germain, colonial secretary for
American colonies during the war,
who tried to suppress colony up-
rising; and his assistan William
Knox.
,The manuscripts of Lord Shel-
burne, English prime minister
after the war, are largely peace
treaty negotiation documents. IHis
secretary of war, Lord Sydney,
Britian's attorney general and
An army of small snails may
spell trouble for Egypt's proposed
Aswan Dam, Prof. Henry vander
Schalie of the Zoology department
says.
The snails are key links in the
life cycle of the schistosomes-
parasites of the human blood
stream which cause the debilitat-
ing disease, schistosomiasis. Usu-
al result from the disease is pro-
gressive weakness and emaciation,
followed by death from exhaus-
tion, pneumonia, or secondary
infections.
Prof. van de Schalie says scien-
tists fear that construction of the
proposed $1.3 billion Aswan Dam
could make the disease prevalent
enough to cancel all the benefits
Egypt expects to gain from the ir-
rigation and power project.
He notes that more than 60 per-
cent of the people in northern
Egypt have schistosomiasis, com-
pared to only 5 or 6 per cent of
the people in the southern part,
because perennial irrigation in
the North makes an ideal environ-
ment for the snails.
Construction of the dam,' he
says, would create the same en-
vironment in southern Egypt and
pave the way for the spread of
snails and schistosomiasis.
Prof. van der Schalie is one
of four Americans who recently
attended the World Health Or-
ganization Conference on African
Schistosomiasis at Brazzaville,
French Equatorial Africa
Another University zoologist,
Prof. Nelson G. Hairston, is more
optimistic about control prospects'
for the disease in the Philippines,,
where he spent the past two and
a half years as special advisor for
joint Filipino-WHO experimental'
projects.
Prof. Hairston says experiment-
al projects have shown the Ori-
ental variety of the disease can be
controlled by upsetting the snails'
environment. Knowledge tested in
the experiments is now being ap-
plied on a larger scale, the pro-
fessor adds, and much of Asia is
watching for the results.
NEW YORK (A)-Scientists are.
starting a world-wide search into
secrets of this big house we live
in-the planet Earth.
Their search will range'from
deepest cellar to highest attic, and
even the space beyond.
The quest is sending U.S. scien-
tists to duty stations from Alaska
to the South Pole, and over the
seas. It will shoot artificial moons
circling in space.
Forty Nations
The occasion is the Interna-
tional Geophysical Year - IGYY,
combining the skills of scientists
of 40 nations. IGY starts officially
July 1, and extends to Jan. 1, 1959.
Its purpose is a more exact un-
derstanding of our own planet and
the powerful forces that act upon
it and affect our lives.
From LGY may well come better
weather predictions, even control
of weather; surer communications,
better understanding of the shape
and interior of the earth, the
strange auroral displays, cosmic
rays, magnetism and gravity, the
secrets of the seas, and the first
step toward travel one day to the
moon and sister planets.
Six Miles Deep
In a million years on this planet,
men have dug only six miles deep,
soared scarecely higher in the
ocean of air. Brilliant scientists
have nonetheless learned and de-
duced many vital facts about our
home.
But IGY will permit , far-flung
and even simultaneous measure-
ments and observations of vital\
phenomena through networks of
stations around the globe.
Most dramatic event will be the
launching of man-made moons,
the size of basketballs, into orbits
carrying them at five miles per
second at heights of 300 to 1,500
miles above the earth.-
a
Crowded Space
Messengers into the new frontier
of space, they will record a new-
look at our life-giving sun, a look
not obscured by earth's atmos-
phere. They can tell new facts
about the intensity of the sun's
radiation, including X-rays and
ultraviolet light.
They can record how crowded
space is with meteors, from tiny
dust specks to BB shot or larger,
that may await a rocket ship. 320 So
Just how empty is space of air or
hydrogen molecules?:::.;;:.....
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